Sentences with phrase «with sparse dialogue»

Long stretches play out in near silence, with sparse dialogue and minimal score, building an unusual tension.

With its sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic take on one of film history's most durable genres.

Building a script, based on journals of shipwreck victims, William Broyles Jr. creates a skillful work in which events and emotions are brought to life with sparse dialogue and little music; the first melodic sound is heard 90 minutes into the story.

However, the surreal, epic - type film counterposes its superlative photography with a slim tale of working class protagonists, told with sparse dialogue and the jarring, quirky, drawling, and dispassionate, colloquial voice - over narration of a streetwise, but unschooled 13 year old girl (Manz).

Not exact matches

Which means that somehow director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane) keeps the audience gripped in suspense for nearly two and a half hours largely with facial expressions, minimal dialogue, a sparse but hard - hitting score, and stunningly beautiful cinematography.

As countless other critics will tell you, The Revenant resembles a Terrence Malick film, with its sparse use of dialogue, dreamlike atmosphere, and extensive reliance on nature shots.

Script is so sparse with ideas and dialogue that the running time is stretched through observational narrative.

Finley's script is so sparse with ideas and dialogue that the running time is stretched through observational narrative.

But kids find a way to be kids wherever they are, and Baker's uncannily intuitive camerawork (in collaboration with cinematographer Alexis Zabe) and sparse, naturalistic dialogue draw us into Moonee's world as she sees it, in all its beauty and danger.

There is very little dialogue in the film, with long stretches playing out in the relative quiet of sound effects and sparse music that made every cough and seat shift in the theater a part of the building tension.

Contemplative and resonant even with its sparse use of dialogue, meanings are conveyed more profoundly, more intimately, through its use of Malick - ian visual poetry and subtle yet affecting performances from leads Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck.

You'll get dribs and drabs of story everywhere: sparse dialogue with other characters, item descriptions and even the level architecture itself.